SEC Officials Hold Sandestin Meeting On Florida Title
SEC athletic directors from 10 universities meet at Sandestin Beach Hilton to decide on future conference actions not ruling on Florida Gators football title. Recommendations include curbing off campus visits, January signing week, and Pell grant limits, with other sports rule experiments and a 5 2 football schedule continuation to 1988.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steve Humphries
Sandestin
University of Florida Gators
Vanderbilt University Athhletic
Roy Kramer
Sandestin Beach Hilton
Florida
Kramer
University of Tennessee
National Collegiate Athletic Association
NCAA
College Football Association
CFA
SEC
City Honors Servicemen On Memorial Day Service
Destin, honoring fallen servicemen, held its first Memorial Day service at Destin Memorial Cemetery with Taps sounding and Rev. Alexander Greene reading the roll call of local veterans. Joel Adler and many others were named. Bill Phillips gave a keynote recounting Decoration Day history and the need to honor those who died in war across land sea and air.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karen MacGrogan
Stahlman Avenue
Alexander Greene
Destin Memorial Cemetery
Joel Adler
Lester B
Andy” Adriansen
Robert H. Allen
Clint Ashmore
Leon Caver Jr
Milner R. Dixon
Robert F. Doss
Thomas J. Flannelly
George W. Harper
Robert G. Hecker
Osca Wood Johnson
Eugene Thomas Marler
Richard M. McHarg
Billy Joe Miller
Thomas E. Robertson
Paul Sexton
Edgar O. Walter
Charles Leslie Watson
Harold Lee Williams
Richard A. Williams
Jack Shea
Memorial Committee of American Legion Post
Destin Council
Bill Phillips
Phillips
Destin Beach Brims With Tourists As Season Opens
Memorial Day weekend marks the start of the Destin South Walton tourist season with sunbathers on the beach and long restaurant queues. Destin Chamber of Commerce director Anita Krohn notes a doubled unit count in two years and high occupancy at Easter and memorial weekend, while Abbott Realty reports full bookings across 13 condominiums and no damages as families flock to a more sophisticated clientele.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karen MacGrogan
Destin
Anita Krohn
Krohn
Abbott Realty
South Walton
Ken Carden
New Study Could Boost Bay Bridge Prospects
Okaloosa County officials preview a $50,000 MPO study to extend a 1995 transportation plan toward Destin Piney Point to Niceville White Point. The effort aims to assess bridge needs, with multiple routes considered and public hearings planned, as Destin South Walton seeks long term Bay area links.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steve Humphries
Choctawhatchee Bay
Piney Point
Destin
White Point
Niceville
Okaloosa County
Larry Anchors
Anchors
Fort Walton Beach
Florida
Okaloosa
Walton
South Walton
Destin-to- Niceville
Andors
Santa Rosa Sound
Wright Parkway
Fort Walton
Bill Phillips
Bay Bridge
Phillips
Destin-South Walton
Barron Fires Humorous Bombshells in Senate Theater
Sen. Dempsey Barron of Panama City, known for porkbarrel power, uses humor to jab at rivals as he questions bills on a statewide prosecutor and the drinking age. He mocked Nazism and liquor experience while urging colleagues to pay attention, then voted for the prosecutor bill amid laughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose Flagg
Dempsey Barron
Senate
Panama City
Destin
Wakulla
Barron
Bob Crawford
Winter Haven
Florida
Crawford
Dick Langley
Allermont
Langley
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